NAME

simplemonitor - Monitor hosts status and network connectivity

SYNOPSIS

simplemonitor [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

simplemonitor monitors hosts (disk space, load average, services, HTTP availability and much more) and network connectivity (based on ping replies).

This manual page is for the simplemonitor executable options. The full documentation for how to add monitors and alerters can be found in /usr/share/doc/simplemonitor/html.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Show help and exit
-p PIDFILE, --pidfile PIDFILE: Write PID into PIDFILE
-N, --no-network: Disable network listening socket (if enabled in config)
-f CONFIG, --config CONFIG: Configuration file (this is the main config; monitors.ini is also needed (default filename))

OUTPUT CONTROLS

-v, --verbose: Alias for --log-level=info
-q, --quiet: Alias for --log-level=critical
-d, --debug: Alias for --log-level=debug
-l LOGLEVEL, --log-level LOGLEVEL: Log level: critical, error, warn, info, debug
-C, --no-colour, --no-color: Do not colourise log output
--no-timestamps: Do not prefix log output with timestamps

TEST AND DEBUG TOOLS

-t, --test: Test config and exit
-l, --one-shot: Run the monitors once only, without alerting. Require monitors without "fail" in the name, to succeed. Exit zero or non-zero accordingly
--loops LOOPS: Number of iterations to run before exiting
--dump-known-resources: Print out loaded Monitor, Alerter and Logger types

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Carles Pina i Estany <carles@pina.cat> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the BSD-3-clause.